David, interesting point you made. I must confess ...

2009-12-09T06:45:34.241+05:30

David, interesting point you made. I must confess though, that the context in which I mentioned 'reject' was totally different :-)!

The Indian IT industry in the past decade has been hiring "engineers' for software development/ maintenance roles -where as graduates/MCAs would hv sufficed!

Considering that most engineers anyway needed to be trained inhouse -as they included even civil, production, metallurgical streams, I strongly suspect it had to their "16yrs education' entitling them to pass thru stringent US visa regulations.

Achyut, The point that you make about sheer numbe...

2009-12-08T12:24:57.203+05:30

Achyut,

The point that you make about sheer numbers, and I quote from ur blog "..process is unique-in a way where the luxuries of excesses force one to 'reject' candidates before one reaches the position of needing to select!!"

Although, you have not spelled it out clearly. Your comment alludes to the possibility of the "commoditization" of the recruitment people and process. Why should this astonish anyone. Since, the IT industry has now achieved almost every quality standard and best practice imaginable. So any resume that contains the right "tags" and "keywords" will get separated from the rest.
This leads to what you call very high "rejection rates".
I wonder how the Japanese took their industry to the next level. Of course, I refer to the reverse of the problem we face in India. Toyota, Honda and Sony achieved "very high" acceptance rates to their products.
So what lessons and parallels can we draw, if any?
Their per unit cost fell after they achieved such high "acceptance rates". Is there a connection to the cost per hire question, you are asking ?

Thanks,
David DSouza

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